Tag: Election Commission

R. Santhanagopalan will replace Nikunja Dhal as the Odisha CEO. Santhanagopalan had earlier served as Secretary of the Labour and ESI Department.

The last Assembly election was held here in 2014 after which a coalition government of the BJP and the PDP headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed came to power.

Kiran Rao's 'Laapataa Ladies' is outperforming other films on Netflix, even surpassing 'Animal' in viewership. Produced by Aamir Khan, the film's dialogues are being used by the ECI to promote voting during the Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission of India is set to implement an 'early action formula' during the next four phases of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal. This includes heightened security, monitoring of influential politicians, and preventive detentions to ensure fair and peaceful polling.

The Election Commission declared the Lok Sabha elections in six polling stations of Outer Manipur void, with fresh voting scheduled for April 30. This follows disturbances during the initial vote. Meanwhile, high voter turnout was recorded across other stations.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a batch of petitions seeking mandatory cross-verification of the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips. However, a bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked the Election Commission of India to examine the suggestion if the VVPAT slips may have unique barcodes on them in addition to the party symbol, which in turn could be counted by an electronic machine.

The Supreme Court rejected petitions for mandatory cross-verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips but directed the Election Commission to explore adding barcodes to VVPAT slips. Justice Khanna introduced measures for securing and verifying Symbol Loading Units and burnt memory semicontrollers post-election, with associated costs covered by requesting candidates unless tampering is detected.

The Election Commission of India has announced the schedule for the second phase of voting in Odisha, set for May 20, 2024.

According to Dhal, the EC has so far received 3,873 complaints through C-Vigil app for the model code of conduct violation and among those, 3,854 cases have been disposed so far.

Polling will be held in as many as 28 Assembly seats of Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Berhampur in the fourth phase.

Polling booths that are vulnerable to booth capturing will be monitored by 900 Micro Observers.

An order issued on Thursday by the EC said: "All the 22 polling stations (21 in Jammu and 1 in Udhampur) shall be mapped to camps/zones ensuring that every zone has at least one special polling station.

In a letter to Odisha Chief Secretary, ECI Secretary Rakesh Kumar has asked for the transfer of several officers out to non-election related post with immediate effect

The prohibition period is set to commence from 7 a.m. on April 19, and conclude at 6:30 p.m. on June 1.

This comes as the continuation of the EC's past practice of facilitating the Kashmiri migrant to vote through postal ballots and special polling stations set at Jammu, Udhampur, and New Delhi.